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What If It Was Purple? is a skit that appeared on The Eric Andre Show, where Eric either cheers or throws up at a purple colored object. The sketch has been used in four-panel exploitables where an object is rendered in purple or is replaced with a purple replacement. Other examples have changed the text "What if it was purple" to another adjective.

Origin

On July 8th, 2012, the seventh episode of The Eric Andre Show, "J-Moe", aired, which featured the skit. In the skit, Eric Andre cheers at a number of things hued purple such as a pencil and Republican politician Karl Rove, before throwing up at a purple-hued rabbit (shown below).

Spread

The scene began seeing use in memes several years after the skit aired. On January 4th, 2018, a picture featuring Laura Dern appeared in /r/sequelmemes,^[1] gaining over 300 points (shown below, left). On December 12th, 2018, an example featuring Shrek and Thanos appeared on dopl3r^[2] (shown below, right).

Other popular examples include a December 2nd, 2018 Tumblr post by thestalkerbunny featuring the Pokémon Pumpkaboo and its Shiny counterpart, gaining over 670 notes (shown below, left) and a May 19th, 2018 post by Redditor Tman2bard in /r/FireEmblemHeroes that gained over 1,900 points (shown below, right).

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